In The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, Hamming gives this amazing sigmoidal formulation for the growth rate of computing power: e^(22(1-e^(-t/20))), with t=0 in 1943. That predicts 2.2 GHz for 2019, with is rather remarkably close to where we are.
Interesting! What causes the skew / how do you resync or mitigate it?
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The skew actually comes from propagation velocities! Clock distribution networks need to be aware and phase shift the clock for synch operation.
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Interesting. I guess that makes sense - if the signal is propagating say ~3 millimeters (?) even at ~lightspeed it's going to take 1/100 of a nanosecond. At 3 GhZ, that's 1/33rd of a clock cycle. Am I understanding the issue correctly?
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